Arnold Bode

Arnold Bode (23 December 1900 – 3 October 1977) was a German architect, painter, designer and curator.

[1] This featured a broad overview of 20th-century art using large spaces in an innovative way.

[1] Frieze Magazine claims: 'documenta's singularity becomes clear in comparison with the Venice Biennale, which began in 1895 and inspired the Bienal de São Paulo in 1951 before spawning endless copies across the globe in the 1990s.

By contrast, documenta's internationalism remains rooted in the failures of nationalism: the defeat and material hardship wrought by National Socialism and the repressed shame surrounding the Holocaust.

Others have since continued to produce regular documenta exhibitions in Kassel.